Sentence examples for secession into from inspiring English sources

Vicious fighting broke out there last week, and there is fear that an escalating conflict in Kordofan could complicate southern Sudan's secession into an independent country, scheduled for next month.

All existing theories of secession include accounts of what gives a group a claim to sovereignty over territory, but to make these accounts fully plausible, they also need to explain what grounds less robust claims to territory, and that requires integrating a theory of secession into a comprehensive theory of territorial justice.

Philosophical work on secession falls into three main categories: (1) attempts to develop an account of the moral right to secede (understood either as a claim-right or as a mere liberty), (2) investigations of the compatibility or incompatibility of secession with constitutionalism, and (3) attempts to determine what posture international law should adopt concerning secession.

For their efforts, the Spanish acquired important bridgeheads on the Rhine River, securing a land route to the rebellious northern provinces, which helped to extend an already long war of secession well into the next century.

In the 1970s, Mayor John Lindsay convened a commission to look into the feasibility of secession in response to Governor Nelson Rockefeller's threat of investigating his government.

The Secession had split into wearying factions.

Unlike South Carolina, whose strident proslavery voices led the South into secession, North Carolina left the Union reluctantly, seeking compromise until the last moment.

"The drive for secession and integration into the Russian Federation was instigated and incited by the Russian authorities, under the cover of a military intervention," said the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE).

Butler's men occupied Baltimore to ensure that Maryland did not follow its fellow Southern states into secession.

After a referendum on Quebec's secession in 1995 was only narrowly defeated, he was press-ganged into provincial politics as Liberal leader.

In 1958 Egypt and Syria were merged into one state, called the United Arab Republic, a name that was retained by Egypt for a decade after Syria's secession in 1961.